UPDATE: No sooner had I hit “publish,” I get an email from Google confirming the deal has been approved by the FTC. The announcement reads in part…
FTC Gives Google, DoubleClick Thumbs Up
A 4-1 vote by the Federal Trade Commission wraps up its eight-month investigation of antitrust concerns over Google’s purchase of DoubleClick and approves the acquisition.
Google Docs Gains Some Basic Features
It hasn’t been a complaint so much as an observation, but many people have said that Google Docs possesses fewer features than Microsoft Word. This is still the case, yet now Google Docs has gained several of the more basic and often-used options.
Google Offers Reprieve From Google Hell
Webmasters can stop fretting about Google’s supplemental results – they’re not really there anymore. Google has lifted the veil between indices.Google introduced its supplemental results in 2003, much to the chagrin of webmasters actively looking to have more of their content indexed for search. In what the company then called "a new Google experiment," a pair of indexes were created, one for the search engine’s main results, and a second for more obscure queries.
No Surprise: Few Know Of Google Docs
The blogosphere has chattered about a study that found nearly three out of four people haven’t heard of Google Docs or other online productivity suites.
Site- And Source-Related Updates To Google Earth
Improvements to the search engine at Google.com are undeniably newsworthy, but on a sort of life-and-death scale, adjustments to the Google News engine are also important. And a few changes (and reminders) cropped up recently.
New Google Contest – Online Marketing Challenge
Looks like Google is having a contest to ask students across the world to help local business’ become more optimized in the Google SERPs: Register your class for the Google Online Marketing Challenge
More December Google Earth Updates
Almost two weeks ago, a post called "December Updates in Google Earth" was made on the official LatLong Blog, and I figured Google’s geographic information system (GIS) specialists were done for the year. I was wrong, though, as they’ve just released new, more detailed imagery.
Google Won’t Make Judgements, but Desires to be Starting Point
With the announcement of Knol, Google displayed their desire to become a publisher. Why?
Read This: Google Reader Shares Your Stuff
Users of Google Reader now find themselves sharing items with friends through the chat feature in Gmail, aka Google Talk.